A Texas sheriff says the deaths from flash flooding in central Texas has risen to 27 people, including nine children.

Rescuers scoured flooded riverbanks littered with mangled trees Saturday and turned over rocks in the search for more than two dozen children from a girls' camp and many others missing after a wall of water blasted down a river in the Texas Hill Country.

As the Hill Country reels from the devastating floods that surged through Kerr County on the Fourth of July, the names of those lost are beginning to emerge. Friday's flood prompted a disaster declaration and a wide-scale emergency response.